I pray those in our nation who pray for Israel will be spared that judgment, should it come.
Obama's zombie supporters, however, just keep marching along. This is all they care about:
Obama Is Going To Pay For My Gas And Mortgage!!!
Posted on 05/20/2011 6:42:57 AM PDT by Kaslin
President Obama's major speech on the Middle East Thursday will come back to haunt him. He said nothing that will have any impact in deterring Syrian government violence against pro-democracy protestors, but the president did make pronouncements that threaten another state in the Middle East: Israel, America's strongest ally in the region.
In his speech Thursday, the president paid lip service to Israeli security but laid down dangerous markers for restarting peace negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians. With this speech, Obama became the first American president to require that Israel accept its pre-1967 borders as a starting point to negotiations with the Palestinians.
This is a dramatic departure from U.S. policy, which recognized that agreed-to final borders would be the end product of negotiations between the parties, not a precondition to starting talks. In essence, what Obama has called for is unilateral concessions from Israel without a single concrete concession from the Palestinians.
What makes this even more dangerous is that a terrorist group dedicated to the destruction of Israel -- Hamas -- governs Palestinians in Gaza. On the West Bank, the Palestinian Authority is in the hands of a Hamas-Fatah coalition, with the two groups having agreed to put aside their differences in order to demand recognition of a Palestine state by the United Nations this fall. If that happens, there will be no such thing as what the president termed "a secure Israel."
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was quick to respond, calling Israel's pre-1967 borders "indefensible." History proves he's right. In 1967, Israel was on the eve of an all-out assault by its Arab neighbors when it took out the Egyptian and Syrian air forces. Within six days, Israel had defeated Egypt, Syria, Jordan, and Lebanon and gained significant territory, including the Arab-controlled parts of Jerusalem.
Nonetheless, Israel was attacked again a few years later. In 1973, Egypt and Syria launched an offensive on the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, Yom Kippur. Again, Israel was successful in defeating both countries and gained more territory in the process.
Even though Israel was twice the victor, both wars were the result of Arab aggression. Yet Israel has proven its willingness to return territory gained in war. Israel returned the Sinai to Egypt after negotiating a peace settlement with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat.
Israel has been the one country in the area willing from the start to negotiate away land in return for recognition of its right to exist and a promise of peaceful coexistence from its neighbors. But instead of encouraging that precedent, Obama wants unilateral territorial concessions from Israel in return for empty promises.
The good news is that the Obama plan will go nowhere. There is no chance that Congress will support the administration's heavy-handed pressure on Israel. And the Israelis will never agree to such conditions as a prerequisite to peace negotiations.
And Obama has hurt himself domestically as well. Jewish donors and voters were an important part of Obama's winning coalition in 2008. But many in the pro-Israel community are deeply disturbed at what they see as the president's lukewarm support for Israel and will not likely give him the same level of support in 2012.
On Sunday, the president is set to address the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), one of the most influential lobbying groups in the country. I expect he'll say all the right things about how important an ally Israel is to the United States and that our two countries share common values and principles. The audience will applaud politely -- and some die-hard Democrats in the group may even tell themselves that Obama is a good friend to Israel.
But the president can't have it both ways. He can't give a speech Thursday that makes dangerous demands on Israel and pretend a few days later that his words have not damaged the important U.S.-Israeli relationship.
Obama has abandoned Israel. Now its time that Israel's supporters in the U.S. abandon him.
There; fixed it.
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That is a good point
He meant Moochelle and himself
He thought he could do this in the shadow of Bin Laden's capture, but beople are finally starting to see through his claims he isn't a muzzie or at a minimum a muzzie sympathizer. And while that may not be a problem with his base, it will definitely be a problem with many independents.
Hi, R9.
Yes, he has also encouraged an up tic in the violence against Jews.
Isn’t he just so special.
New tagline:
I clenched my teeth and growled in anger when I heard him say this. When it comes to Bin Laden he says it was me me me, but when it comes to this he then says it's all of us.
Lukewarm support? He could hardly have issued a stronger disclaimer without calling on Israel's neighbors to drive the hated Zionists into the sea.
I pray those in our nation who pray for Israel will be spared that judgment, should it come.
Obama's zombie supporters, however, just keep marching along. This is all they care about:
Obama Is Going To Pay For My Gas And Mortgage!!!
... he means we, WE, the muslim community in America.
Decision to throw Israel under the bus was made by the 2 women in charge of Mid-East policy: Valerie Jarrett (born in Iran) and Samantha Power, an Irish national, married to Cass Sunsteen and works out of the White House. Very evil people and totally committed to Palistinian Caliphate.
For the record (in this thread):
“As for security, every state has the right to self-defense, and Israel must be able to defend itself -– by itself”
BHO, 5/19/11.
The undocumented obama, beloved by the US Congress in
his systematic treason to destroy America and the
US Constitution, let his unconscious show through.
Obama took the side of al Qaeda and Inkwan.
The US Congress is mute.
US history, the murdered by al Qaeda, and
the fabric of America, are shocked by the coup d’etat.
I just tried googling the embassy to get the email address—either google or the webfilter here doesn’t like it because the google connection wheel ‘spins & spins’. I can’t even access the “contact us” page of the embassy. If you still have that address could you post it—I’d like to tell them Zero does NOT speak for the majority of Americans. Thanks!
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The buck stops with Barry.
They don't want a separate state, they want the place currently known as Israel.
my advice to Israel: Obama is an @ss. He will never be satisfied with Isreal, he lives in a fantasy land, and he is a weakling.
As such, ignore him. Continue to pay respect to America, but simply ignore Obama and everything he tries to do. He won’t be around that long anyway.
Of course Bambi is to blame, but placing him in charge was the most irresponsible event the media, the political parties et al have ever created. Former SDS, Weather Underground. Marxists, Communists and other such fellow travelers are all working for the White House and the Czars.
My MIL has a good friend who is Jewish and a very caring person. At dinner yesterday she told us that as soon as OBama opened his locally office she would go work for his relection. This lady has been to Isreal and refers to it as the most moving experience of her life. I don't think she heard Obama's speech yesterday, but I am convinced she will take whatever assurance is offered that Obama's plan will not damage Isreal and go with that.
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